Davenport is an Iowan gem.
Patrick Koenig
As a part of GOLF’s rigorous rankings course of for our newly launched High 100 Programs within the U.S. and High 100 Programs You Can Play rankings, our fleet of 100-plus knowledgeable panelists recognized the perfect golf programs in each state.
You’ll be able to take a look at the hyperlinks beneath to browse all of our course rankings, or scroll right down to see the perfect programs in Iowa. And when you’re trying to create your individual journey sooner or later, you’d be clever to let GOLF’s new Course Finder software help you. Right here, you may toggle all of our lists — High 100 public, greatest munis, greatest quick programs, greatest par-3s and extra — or filter by value to create the right itinerary to your subsequent journey.
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The perfect golf programs in Iowa (2024/2025)
SYMBOL GUIDE
# = High 100 Course within the U.S.
Y = High 100 You Can Play within the U.S.
V = High 100 Worth Course within the U.S.
P = Public/Resort
Ed. observe: Some programs had been omitted from our rankings as a result of they didn’t obtain sufficient votes.
1. Davenport CC (Nice Valley) [#]
Colt & Alison is a legendary identify in golf-course design however most golfers don’t notice that Harry Colt by no means returned to North America after 1914. Due to this fact, many Colt & Alison programs within the U.S. truly are solo Alison designs, like this one, which opened in 1924. Much like Milwaukee Nation Membership and Kirtland outdoors of Cleveland, this river valley property was blessed with a stream (an off-shoot of the Mississippi River) that runs by it. Alison took most benefit of the water function at such holes because the par-5 ninth, the place the stream runs the size of the opening; the dramatic one-shot tenth, which performs diagonally throughout the river valley; and the well-known downhill sixteenth, at which you cross the stream from the elevated tee. Although set on increased floor, the course’s greatest gap may be the 440-yard seventh, a showpiece in the right way to drape a gap over fascinating landforms.
2. The Cedar Rapids CC (Cedar Rapids)
3. Wakonda Membership (Des Moines)
4. The Harvester Membership (Rhodes)
5. Des Moines Golf and Nation Membership – South (West Des Moines)
How we rank our programs
For our newly launched High 100 U.S. and High 100 You Can Play lists — a course of that helped us create 50 best-in-state rankings — every panelist was supplied a poll that consisted of 609 programs. Beside the checklist of programs had been 11 “buckets,” or groupings. If our panelists thought-about a course to be among the many high three within the U.S., they ticked that first column. In the event that they believed the course to be amongst Nos. 4-10, they checked that column, adopted by 11-25, 26-50, and so forth out to 250+ and even a column for “take away.” Panelists had been additionally free to put in writing in programs that they felt ought to have been included on the poll.
